Macaranga involucrata(Roxb.) Baill. ex Müll.Arg.

WFO wfo-0000232031 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Jane C Frost
fig. a Jane C Frost, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204830824
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180289247
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141150457
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. d Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180289266
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141150480
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. f Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180289283
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141150502
Macaranga involucrata, photographed by Jane C Frost
fig. h Jane C Frost, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204830838

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Macaranga involucrata is native: Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Sulawesi, Northern Territory, Queensland Bismarck ArchipelagoMalukuNew GuineaSulawesiNorthern TerritoryQueensland
Native distribution of Macaranga involucrata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Sulawesi SUL
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Macaranga amboinensis (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg.
  • Macaranga asterolasia F.Muell.
  • Macaranga bengalensis (Gaudich.) Baill.
  • Macaranga dalechampioides S.Moore
  • Macaranga involucrata var. keyensis Warb.
  • Macaranga keyensis (Warb.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Macaranga mallotoides F.Muell.
  • Macaranga mallotoides (Müll.Arg.) L.M.Perry
  • Macaranga schleinitziana K.Schum.
  • Macaranga schleinitziana var. lobulata Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Macaranga seta-felis Whitmore
  • Macaranga williamroxburghii Chakrab.
  • Mappa amboinensis Müll.Arg.
  • Tanarius amboinensis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze
  • Tanarius involucratus Kuntze
  • Urtica involucrata Roxb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.